As we focus on black history this month, specifically black history in Maritime Nantucket, we must ask, did our black Nantucketers of days past receive equal treatment when they were on the island?
On February 14, 1881, the "Hazard" ran aground on Old Man shoal off Nantucket. No two accounts of the events that took place are alike, adding to the mystery of this notable shipwreck.
Charles Allard, Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum Manager, grapples with issues of inclusion in Nantucket's lifesaving history, and remembers the heroic Pea Island surfmen and their remarkable rescue.
On February 4, 1871, the schooner, "Mary Anna," destined for Maine with a cargo of coal, wrecked on a shoal off Nantucket.
On January 21, 1892, Coskata Life-Saving Station keeper Walter Nelson Chase and his crew completed one of the most remarkable and heroic rescues in Nantucket history.
On Thursday, November 8, engineering professor Fred Looft and twenty-one students from Worchester Polytechnic Institute visited the Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum.
Visit the Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum to view the original 1857 Great Point lens, dismantled by the Coast Guard in 1971, and original 1818 roof cap.
On Friday, June 1 Egan Maritime welcomed its members to the Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum to celebrate the 2018 season and the museum's fiftieth year since incorporation.
Fifty shipwreck stories to mark fifty years of incorporation in the Monaghan Gallery at the Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum.